Early Lithographed Books: A Study of the Design and Production of Improper Books in the Age of the Hand Press

First edition, this being one of 50 numbered copies bound thus and containing a special limitation page. Includes chapters on lithographic incunables, military manuals, the lithographic publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps, books on accounting, and books with pictures. Well-illustrated. 374 pages. quarter blue calf stamped in gilt, marbled paper covered boards, vellum tips, top edge gilt by A.W. Lumsden - Edinburgh .. small 4to..